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FS2004 Transparencies

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Hi everybody, sorry if the issue has already been treated but I'm stuck on this problem.
I was able to get a satisfactory appearance for surfaces like glass of windows (i.e. in terminal or tower) using the opacity slider in Material Editor but if I get closer and look through them I notice that I can see trees or clouds just as if the inside walls, ceiling or surfaces don't exist.
This happens also after checking the "2-sides" option for the material applied to the whole building.
Where's my mistake?
Thanks for any suggestion.

Stefano
 
Hi Stefano,

By default all polygons are single-sided, so normally there is indeed no inside for your building and you will just look through it.

The double sided option you mention is in the material editor I think, but that one is not supported by the FS2004 gamepack. You need to start your material name with ds_ to get a double sided material.

But even when you use double sided materials, you can still have drawing order problems with the building. That depends on how complex it is in general.
 
Thanks for clear answer, Arno, now I see where the conceptual mistake was, the walls and ceiling of my building are polygons, not 3d elements.
In this case I simply will give up trying to get transparent windows and will apply a glass-like opaque texture to them.

However, could it be a workaround if I model a building starting with a solid shape and obtaining the inside space by a boolean operation, in order to have a 3-dimensional walls and ceiling?
 
Yes that works, but there can still be viewing problems when looking through more than one pane of glass.
 
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